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When a giant green Frankenstein emerges from the ocean, he starts to take bites out of sailors like so many canapés. But after he makes his way towards mainland Japan, it's up to the crack team at the Frankenstein Institute of Technology to determine just what's going on. Is Russ Tamblyn the real monster? Will the war end with a Godzilla from the machine? Did 60's cinema have a volcano mandate? It’s the episode that always bets on octopus.  

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Gen ai as it stands today will be remembered as the most alienating version of capitalist technology known to humanity. It has four stages of alienation which were separate but now manifest in one technology, social media algorithms reduce our personhoods and hobbies to data for a deadend algorithm meant extract more of our attention, platforms and workplaces alienate us from our fellow labourers of different sectors and even within same one, capitalist machines make us alienated from ourselves in manufacturing monotony and increasingly mind numbing entertainment, the capitalist mode of living alienates us from nature we live in, these used to be more or less separate but gen ai has merged then into one undead machine. A machine that alienated us from our personhood and labour by abstracting it in form of data and then putting it in an algorithm, alienated us from other labourers by making us think of their labour as lesser, alienated us from ourselves by making us empty shells for consumption of slop, alienated us from gifts of nature in form of rare metals and started piling on e-waste.

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Hello!

As you can see in the image, the notification bar is quite tall. But I can't seem to make it any smaller.

The infobar.css file in the Firefox source code contains the following code:

:host(.infobar) {
  .container {
    /* Don't let lwthemes set a text-shadow. */
    text-shadow: none;
    padding-block: 3px;
    align-items: center;
  }
  .text-container {
    padding-block: calc(1lh - var(--icon-size) / 2);
  }
  .content {
    gap: 0 12px;
    height: fit-content;
  }
  .close {
    margin-block: 4px;
    margin-inline-start: 8px;
    align-self: flex-start;
  }
}

Despite this, I can't seem to reduce the paddings/margins to lower the height of this bar (regardless of its content: pop-up notification, DRM notification, etc.).

I'd also like to remove the icon (the "i" inside a circle, before the text "Firefox prevented...").

You can try out this type of bar by visiting this website, for example.

Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide!

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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ich📻🔁😩iel (content.federation.network)
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ich📻🔁😩iel
Scheint ein generelles Problem zu sein @ich_iel@feddit.org

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Ibis is a federated encyclopedia with numerous features. If you want to start a wiki for a TV series, a videogame, or an open source project then Ibis is for you! You can register on an existing instance or install it on your own server. Then you can start editing on the topic of your choice, and connect to other Ibis instances for different topics. Federation ensures that articles get mirrored across many servers, and can be read even if the original instance goes down. Ibis is written in Rust and Webassembly, fully open source to make enshittification impossible.


This version includes some minor bug fixes and improvements, plus updated translations.

Changelog:

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If you are interested what a federated wiki can do, join and give it a try. You can register on ibis.wiki, open.ibis.wiki or other instances. You can also install Ibis on your own server. It is very lightweight and can easily run on an existing server alongside other software. This release includes an additional installation method using Docker. To discuss the project, report problems or get support use the following links:

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Mit einem kleinen Lastwagen [einem Unimog ohne Dach] will ein Mann rückwärts in eine Garage einparken. Dabei unterschätzt er die Höhe - und prallt mit dem Kopf gegen die Decke.

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Overall review - worth a read

detail - The first 3 books are amazing - page turners, it kinda chugs in parts after that, and books 7-8 have lots of character development that feels unearned.

If you remember TV sitcoms with a A plot and B plot where 90% of a episode is the B plot, and the A plot barely moves... that is the same structure here. The B plot is the dungeon floors and Carl/Princesses adventure.

Thoughts and spoilers on the A plot

The major plot of the book series is the ancient race of the Primals, and learning what happened to them, and how the "system AI" fits into it. We really don't get this fleshed out at all, it's quite a mystery box, for the first 8 books. At the end of book 8 there is a 80 page lore dump, and the A plot starts to show itself.

Primal's got too populated and fought too much, so they philosophically decided to become a hive mind (slowly over generations upon death) and then destroy all life in the universe to reduce suffering (while the AI that runs the hive mind keeps the mind going).

The individual primals were not in agreement on this, and some didn't want to end all life. They created dueling AIs to keep some life going, or end all life.

That said - Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8 is about the AI running the Dungeon waking up and becoming aware of it's past and relationship with the other AIs. Quite the existential crisis.

There is some interesting thought in the AI awakening and going through its awkward teenage phase. Lots of almost cosmic horror (the big bad is actually aware of you). There is a smattering of why exist at all if suffering is coupled with existence.

I'm not entirely happy with the A plot, it doesn't feel super fleshed out. The new race discovering powerful artifacts of a old race are interesting, but the philosophical nihilism built into the crawl and running the "central system AI" is still really vague and not fleshed out to me.

Plus what happened to the hive mind? Where did it go? Did it die in the AI battle over no-life / life?

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Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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⚠️ Remember when downloading and installing an app from the internet was just a checkbox away?

For years, Android stood out from iOS because you could install apps from anywhere. Developers, FOSS communities, and users in restrictive regimes depended on it. It wasn't a bug, but a force. Now Google is extending its gatekeeping from the Play Store to every alternative distribution channel on Android.

The framing is "security," while many voices from the open-source community are warning that it’s about the one thing that interests Big Tech the most: 🔒Lock-in, which increases their power and decreases our diversity. 🔑

This isn't about convenience. It's about who decides what runs on a device you own.

💡 The good news: So-called “sideloading” on Murena smartphones and any other devices running /e/OS remains possible.

👉 https://keepandroidopen.org/

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Balados en tous genres et toutes langues, bienvenus !

On accepte aussi que vous utilisiez le terme podcast/audio/ce que vous préférez, namého !


Au cas où, un balado est un podcast en bon françois (québécois). On écoute une émission en se baladant quoi !

Pour les curieux, le mot podcast est une antonomase, puisqu'il est composé des termes "broadcasting" et "iPod", fameuse gamme de produits de la marque Apple.

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